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6 foot Asian girls are rare so instead of saying I'll date a girl who's tall and Asian, what if I said I'll date a girl who's tall or Asian?

Seriously, this is only physical attraction. From experience I know that sex appeal should not be the basis of a relationship.

You'd be surprised how many 6-foot Asian girls I see on the New York City subway. Asians born in the US grow up to be a similar height to most people.

Now that's my kind of girl!

What have you been feeding 'em?

Seriously, both of my grandparents are short but they didn't have the benefits of a modern diet. We westerners gained about a foot in height since my grandparents time. Maybe the same thing is now happening in Asia.

It's more like about 3 or 4 inches since the 18th century.

I'm an exception to the rule. I'm about five inches shorter than my father.

At 5'9" I'm two inches shorter than mine.

I was only kidding about it being a lovely spot. It was the 60's and already pretty dangerous as racial tensions were running very high. I was just a kid getting jumped by other kids/kid gangs, but it happened 5-6 times in just one year. Had my candy taken , dogs sicced on us, had to pick glass out of my arms... Good times.

And don't forget: this kind of stuff wasn't publicized in the papers then; it was taken for granted.

The people who made up the Projects had good intentions (slum clearance)--but the results have been disastrous, for the most part.

I once lived in a good "project," though. On Lafayette Avenue and White Plains Road in the Bronx. There was even a garden within a courtyard there!

Time Bandits - 1981 film by Terry Gilliam

Napoleon is gleefully watching a Punch and Judy show but the puppeteer gets shot. A desperate emcee emerges and introduces a series of vaudeville acts in the hopes that Napoleon will like them.

Emcee: “This I think you like. Very funny. The Three Idiots! Uh, from Latvia. Very funny. They swallow brushes!”

Napoleon: “No noooo. They are freaks! Not one of them under five foot six…. More of the funny show! Little puppets hitting each other. That’s what I like! Little things! Hitting each other!”

You want to hear something funny?

It is said that Napoleon was actually about 5 foot 7, about the average height for a man back in the late 18th century.

Yes, some were good places. I lived in Arverne and Far Rockaway projects earlier and those were fine. In the summer there was a games program in the project park for the kids. And you were right on the beach. My Dad would take us after work sometimes. I played outside all the time without any problem.

A few are said to be ok today, like Co Op City.

But the overwhelming mass today are like you said, ravaged by drugs, gangs, crime. And the reporting was exactly like you said. With riots and cities going up in flames every other week, bombings, protests, etc, etc. The rest was little stuff. A few years later the Catholic school I went to in Roosevelt Long Island was attacked late one afternoon by an estimated 500 kids from the Public schools. Rocks came thru the windows and we had to sitting in the cooridors. The teachers went down to defend the doors, and then the call went out for 8th grade boys to go down, and then the 7th... Luckily they only got partially in the front entrance and some male teachers were punched. A nun got pushed down some stairs. Then the police came and they scattered. A short mention that night about a 'bizarre attack' on the local TV station 10 o'clock news, (Channel 7?) was all. Didn't even make the papers that we saw. Weird.

Man...these are experiences I never experienced!

When I went to junior high, it was nominally "integrated"--but, in practice, the black/Puerto Rican kids and the white kids were separated from each other. I had no classes with any black kids; it was weird.

Arverne is pretty much a s**thole now; though there is a new "development" there, segregated from the rest of the area, which has condos for about $500,000. Right on the beach.

Pity that Arverne has gone down the tubes. Like most of the rest of Far Rockaway west of Rockaway Park. There are still nice parts on the eastern part of the Rockaway Peninsula.

I lived in Far Rockaway (Bayswater) in the late 1970s.

My Catholic School was totally integrated and about 40% Black, 40% White and 20% Hispanic and we grew up and got along together. We never had problems in school. It was always with outsiders. I ended up on the 'Hit List' of the local gang because I was Captain of the student patrol. But they never got me. Give me three steps and I could outrun anyone. (Went on to lead my High School in medium/long distance Track )

I used to go to East Rockaway to surf in late 70's till about 81. It was ok then. Went to some parties on the blocks there. Named after States? I saw a youtube video about a nice little surf (and beer) club that's grown up there since Sandy. But I was surfing mostly at Long Beach and West End Jones Beach. The coast is a treasure still. Amazing sometimes what can grow out of the ashes.

There was an Irish gang living in a bunch of shacks near Far Rockaway High School who used to chase me en masse every so often.

I was pretty fleet of foot! LOL Though not a track star.

Sounds like you had fun!

All the South Shore has nice beaches.

Rockaway east of Rockaway Park is still nice--all the way to Riis Park and Breezy Point.

Yeah, NYC living put a bounce in your walk and a kick start to your run.

I still have sisters and other family on LI. I enjoy going down to Jones or Captree when I visit. Beautiful white sand. When I was stationed in Biloxi Mississipi on the Gulf coast the surrounding beaches was like a grainular brown sand-dirt, but Biloxi had the white sand. Come to find out it was imported from LI !

Speaking of Irish gangs, there were the Ducky Boys up in the Bronx in the 60's.

"According to Richard Price's book (and movie) The Wanderers, The Ducky Boys were "stunted Irish madmen, none of them over 5 foot 6". They were also portrayed in the movie as soulless killers who never said a word.

For many Bronxites, the Ducky Gang was a gang that many people heard of, but rarely saw. They have been called the "Boogeymen of The Bronx."

The Ducky Boys main turf encompassed Norwood, Bronx, the New York Botanical Garden and Bronx Park near French Charlie's field, specifically the Balcony at E 204th off Webster Avenue, The Tunnels (under Theodore Kazimiroff Blvd.) Twin Lakes (The Ducky, aka Duck Pond), and PS 46 schoolyard.

The Ducky Boys were notorious in the area of the "Duck" Pond (Twin Lakes in Botanical Gardens) in the early 1960s to their eventual fading out c. 1972. Many of the members went on to the Vietnam War or were drafted, between 1965 and 1968.

In August 2010, the book Lost Boys of The Bronx - The Oral History of the Ducky Boys Gang was published by James Hannon telling the story of the Ducky Boys Gang using interviews with the former gang members and neighborhood residents of the time.

On November 1, 2011, Ace Frehley, guitarist for the rock group Kiss, published an autobiography titled "No Regrets" in which he recounts his initiation and involvement with the Ducky Boys in his youth."
(WIKI)

interesting......

Duckies at the pond.